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Costco Jobs in Visalia – Compliance Analyst – Membership

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Job Description:

The Compliance Analyst is a key member of the Membership team reporting to the Manager of IT Membership. This position will be focused on all aspects of compliance, security risk management, privacy, and other industry or regulatory compliance that impact the Costco Wholesale IT Membership. In addition, the role will be responsible for working with all compliance groups including but not limited to IT Compliance, Internal audit, and external audit to ensure that the overall controls are being performed with accuracy and completeness.

The Compliance Analyst will work very closely with the IT Security and other IT leadership and management team members to build and maintain a strong security, risk and compliance program. The role requires a mix of broad, business and technical acumen with strong people-management skills, and the ability to inspire and influence decisions around security risk management with the business. As such, the position works closely with key global business units such as IT, Legal, Audit, and Senior Management, requiring the ability to balance business needs and security risks.

The role will be responsible to determine and establish the approach by which IT Membership will manage and govern issues relating to risk and compliance. This includes creating, institutionalizing and rolling out an issue management approach that addresses the needs of various stakeholders. The overall objective is to reduce risk to the organization by addressing remediation issues in a strategic manner. Providing actionable remediation plans to address issues, tracking, and reporting on progress on a regular basis. The reporting should include the collation, review, analysis, distribution and communication of the issues by Costco’s vertical and horizontal organizational structures.

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Job Responsibilities:

  • Serves as a subject matter expert for governance and compliance frameworks for IT Membership.
  • Contributes in the execution of risk management, information security, and data compliance corporate initiatives for IT Membership.
  • Promotes and supports a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation and corporate accountability throughout the organization.
  • Oversees for the development of required corrective action plans relating to compliance issues.
  • Manages the business relationships with internal and external auditors/assessors.
  • Researches and evaluates new compliance requirements and works with other stakeholders and owners to ensure they are incorporated into the security policy framework, standards, and procedures.
  • Defines and implements a risk-based approach to identifying, monitoring, measuring and reporting various types of security risk and compliance issues in regards to financial reporting.
  • Identifies and prioritizes risk management, information security, and compliance risks and recommends mitigating controls.
  • Works with counterparts across Costco Wholesale to ensure the development and communication of policies, procedures, and plans to internal stakeholders regarding security and risk management best practices and applicable laws and regulations.
  • Evaluates security and risk assessments of IT Membership, external vendors, and service providers.
  • Provides governance for the identification, validation and remediation of information technology controls required by Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Cardholder Information
  • Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), HIPAA, California Privacy Law and other regulatory compliance frameworks. Ensure successful audits of these compliance programs.

Job Requirements:

  • 5+ years’ proven experience developing and executing global security risk management and compliance programs.
  • Experience in providing technical expertise appropriate to knowledge of risk and cost effective delivery of essential security services.
  • Proven experience developing and submitting audit and compliance reports to governing bodies, legal entities, and/or external authorities.
  • Direct experience and knowledge of applicable local and federal information technology laws.
  • Knowledge and understanding of security controls across all security domains such as access management, encryption methods, vulnerability management, network security, etc.
  • Certifications in one or more of the following areas preferred: Security+, CISSP, CISA, and CISM.
  • Architectural-level experience in information security, data compliance, and risk management.
  • Proven people-management experience – worked with a variety of teams globally.
  • Experience in planning, organizing, and developing information technology policies, procedures, and practices.
  • Ability to propose creative solutions to successfully remediate identified compliance issues.
  • Knowledge of risk management practices and security governance programs
  • Solid understanding of IT systems, applications, networks, and databases.
  • Understanding in all aspects of risk management, data compliance, information security strategy, technologies and tools.
  • Understanding of assessing and designing internal controls in an enterprise-level environment.
  • Past or current certifications in one of the following areas: Security+, CISSP, ISA, QSA.

Job Details:

Company: Costco

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Visalia, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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